Posted on 01/15/2008 10:54:35 PM PST by neverdem
A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the “flesh-eating” MRSA bacteria is being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers reported on Monday.
In a study published online by the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the bacteria seemed to be spread most easily through anal intercourse but also through casual skin-to-skin contact and touching contaminated surfaces.
The authors warned that unless microbiology laboratories were able to identify the strain and doctors prescribed the proper antibiotic therapy, the infection could soon spread among other groups and become a wider threat.
The new strain seems to have “spread rapidly” in gay populations in San Francisco and Boston, the researchers wrote, and “has the potential for rapid, nationwide dissemination” among gay men.
The study was based on a review of medical records from outpatient clinics in San Francisco and Boston and nine medical centers in San Francisco.
The Castro district in San Francisco has the highest number of gay residents in the country, according to the University of California, San Francisco. One in 588 residents is infected with the new multidrug-resistant MRSA strain, the study found. That compares with 1 in 3,800 people in San Francisco, according to statistical analyses based on ZIP codes.
A separate part of the study found that gay men in San Francisco were about 13 times more likely to be infected than other people in the city.
The San Francisco researchers suggested that scrubbing with soap and water might be the most effective way to stop skin-to-skin transmission, particularly after sexual activities.
MRSA, for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, was once spread chiefly in hospitals. But in recent years, a number of healthy people have acquired it outside hospitals.
Nearly 19,000 people died in the United States from MRSA infections in 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I don’t care what your politics or religion are..
Can we quarantine this time?
But Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt for simply looking back.
Maybe that's why it's called wrath. And do we really want things to get out of hand and go there?
I simply don't know if this is the Wrath of God. I suspect if it is we will know when God chooses for us to know.
You don't know either.
It would benefit you to understand there are no guarantees in this world. If you have one I would like to see it.
The guarantees are in Heaven, everlasting life in the Kingdom of God (unless you are too busy laughing to make it).
It’s funny you mention shellfish. My son plays football and MRSA is a huge concern. Last year the school started giving all of the players this spray to use after the uniforms got out of the wash before the dryer. The active ingredient in it is derived from shellfish.
If fire and brimstone did rain on San Fran, they would blame it on global warming.
Well, it would be decidedly hotter, so they would correct - for once.
The Breck Girl is so nervous, he would bite his nails. But he just had them manicured.
Larry Craig’s sphincter just tightened a bit more...
Sounds like the correct answer to me.
So many guys running around on the down low.
“The next gay disease to be blamed on Republicans.”
And anyone who suggests the gay lifestyle is dangerous to your health and results in drastically lower life expectancy - are bigots.
Let’s continue to teach our kids about the dangers of drugs, alchohol, smoking and unwanted pregnancy (i.e. heterosexual sex).
But the dangers of homosexual sex are off the table.
[some knucklehead will come in claiming this is God’s wrath poured out on mankind.]
Or a knucklhead like you will continue to believe that their is nothing wrong with sodomy and that the result of such evil behaviour will bring many more diseases and sickness as such evil and unnutural behaviour grows world wide as well as in America.
Romans 1: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Also article posted that the norva virus break out in the UK has hospitals turning people away, an epitemic breakout.
“...Drug resistant bacteria can be blamed largely on our society’s obsession with using antibiotics for everything...”
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Can’t help but think of all the antibiotic imbued toys that are being dumped in landfills. Imagine all the nasty new critters that will come out of there.
Before you start calling people knuclehead, knucklehead, check to see who you are quoting first. I didn’t say it, so get off your high horse with me.
Code Brown?
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